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One Million Behind Bars Now Have Access to Academic Research Through JSTOR

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The program, which provides incarcerated individuals with access to scholarly materials including academic journals, books, and research papers, crossed this threshold in December 2024. This achievement represents a doubling of the program's reach in just over a year. It's a valuable reentry tool for civic engagement.

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

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Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. Cole "cannot do."

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Howard University Taps Antiracist Scholar Ibram X. Kendi to Head New Advanced Studies Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kendi significant expansion of the historically Black university's research capabilities. The institute will focus on interdisciplinary research addressing global African diaspora issues, including studies on race, technology, climate change, and systemic disparities. Board of Education decision.

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Professor, Journalist to Pen Book on J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar Impact

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McCool and award-winning journalist Earl Hopkins have announced a deal with publisher Rowman & Littlefield to pen a book about Kendrick Lamar and J. McCool plan to write a book about the impact of Kendrick Lamar and J. The forthcoming book, whose working title is How J.

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Historical Book about Conservatives and Campus Wars Has Relevance in 2024

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The book “complicates our understanding of right-wing backlash as populist, since the narrators within were college students at a time when higher education was inaccessible to most,” writes Shepherd. His money and influence helped to topple the presidency of Harvard’s first Black president, Dr. Claudine Gay.

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Dr. Jerome Morris Elected Next AERA President, Continuing Legacy of Black Leadership

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Louis, has been elected as the next president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). His research examines the complex intersections of race, social class, and geography in educational opportunity, with a particular focus on the U.S. Four researchers were also elected as division vice presidents-elect: Drs.

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From Small-Town Roots to National Honor: SC Native Receives State's Highest Award

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billion and nearly 200 employees, he helps to leads the largest federal entity dedicated to funding educational research. A nationally recognized expert on African American males, Moore has had a distinguished career in higher education as a researcher and a champion for diversityboth in his work at the National Science Foundation and at OSU.

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